The Tree of My Emotional Connections
When I got older still, somehow the lesson circled back, and quietly made my family grow more treasured each year.
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Western Roads
Out through the northwest and back through the south. Nineteen states and 6,800 miles later, we are home with our hearts stretched wide.
Ten thousand reasons
There is apple pie in the sunshine with apples from our own tree, and there is the radiant face of a child buried in corn.
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Swatches of Lancaster
One of the things I like about it is that it has great barns and cool houses, very old, like this home with the massive wood beams.
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Visualore Media: a family photoshoot
This summer, our family was given the gift of a photoshoot by a friend of ours who is just setting up his side gig of photography.
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A slice of summer: Our June
In my memory, June is a chilly and outrageously drippy month in our part of the world. What has come over this one, full of radiant blue-eyed days?
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Technology detox
What do they do, little urban citizens of virtual worlds, when they arrive in a home where screentime for preschoolers is not prioritized? How do they live?
An Ingalls Easter
I feel like Caroline Ingalls, attempting to preserve civilization on the frontier wilds, with her tiny gilt-toed shepherdess on the mantel.
2020 St. Pat’s Mystery Supper
I love how bright food looks on a plate. And I love this guy, who is willing to eat salad with a knife & a jar from time to time.
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St. Patrick’s Day mystery supper
One of our family traditions is a special dinner on St. Patrick’s Day. When I was a teenager, I was crazy about everything Irish…
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